History & The Arts
Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
...history in forms of monumental commemoration, but should they also encourage us to reconsider our response to similarly monumental figures in our literary history? [Black Lives Matter Protest, Bristol, UK - the statue of Edward Colston, a slave trader, being thrown in the harbour] 7 June 2020, the Edward Colston statue was pulled down then pushed into Bristol Harbour...